Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Our Miami, here's to thee. An age ot speed, of frozen food and ot motion pictures came to Miami. The next titty years brought forth a college with a Natatorium, a Stu- dent Center and an Athletic Stadium, a college with modern conveniences, with modern ideas and modern people. No longer did students live on thirty-two cents a week, no longer did students put cattle in the classroom. They still discussed slavery and Shakespeare, but their young minds began to turn to Atomic Energy and the Nautilus. The times had changed, the environment and people had changed, but education had not changed. Colleges have a beginning, and colleges have an ending, but education never really began and education will never really end. It is only we who begin and end. Education is like the air that sur- rounds us. ln the some way that we take oxygen into our bodies and absorb it, we take education into our minds and assimilate it. We give oft oxy- gen in the form of carbon-dioxide, and we give oft education in the form of an essay or a con- versation. That carbon-dioxide is absorbed by the plants, that education is absorbed by other people. Education never began-it was Miami that began. Upham Hall T8 ...,ycw.. - f.: 1 -...H-11..fF::xfmflQ.mr.::11.4.flisf.-ww'-'rs--.2 f' 1'

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CommencemenT, 1905, was held on The wooded knoll where The Befa TheTa Pi Campanile now sTands. ThaT sound reasoning, coupled wiTh The love of a good 'Time ThaT The sTudenTs porfrayed, led To The founding of fraTerniTies and sororiTies. As men began To share common ideals, morals and secreTs, They consolidaTed These principles, and began To sTarT an inTeIlecTual and social group called a fra- Ternify. OuT of The basic human need To belong, The firsT fraTerniTy wesT of The Alleghenies came To Miami. IT was in I835 ThaT a chapTer of Alpha DelTa Phi was esfablished on The college campus, resulTing in fricTion and unfriendliness wiThin The liTerary socieTies. BuT, ThaT unfriendliness soon disappeared as Miami, The moTher of fraTerniTies, ushered in new fraTerniTies in The years following. BeTa TheTa Pi, The firsT of The Miami Triad, origi- naTed here in I839 wiTh a sense of broTherhood and common inTeresT. Phi Delfa TheTa in i848 formed The second of The Triad, The Dekes in T852 ioined The oThers afTer some members from Yale came To open a chapTer of Twelve members aT Mi- ami. OT These Twelve, six members broke away in i855 To form Sigma Chi. The Miami Triad was complefe. IT was noT unTil The TwenTieTh cenTury ThaT coeducaTion came To Miami bringing wiTh iT The founding of sororiTies and The moTher chapTer of Delfa ZeTa in I902. FraTerniTies flourished ThroughouT Those young years. VViTh Them came an emphasis on academic life and exTra-curricular acTiviTies on The campus. Their TradiTion will long be remembered in The years To come. The BeTa Bells, The Phi Delfa TheTa Roberf Morrison Seminar Room and The Sigma Chi Memorial Scholarship Fund are symbols of The Greek Tradifion, The group idenTiTy and The love for Miami Universify. Love for Miami UniversiTy-iT could be seen in The classroom and on The aThleTic field, iT could be seen on The faces of The men having To leave Their academic life To ioin Their counfry in The Civil War. ThaT spiriT never lefT Those faces, buT Those faces had To leave Miami in l873. The Civil War caused The loss of many sTudenTs from The Soufh- ern sTaTes and The posTwar inflafion had shrunk The real income from The Universify land righTs. There was a loss of public benefacfors and wiTh ThaT loss came The closing of Miami. IT was noT unTil Twelve years laTer ThaT The Trusfees reclaimed The Miami buildings and adverTised The reopening of The Universify-The reopening of a New Miami. Buildings, founfains, and bells sprung up-iT was The New Miami-The modern Miami ThaT was growing in size and presTige. Dogs, squirrels, and green grass Took The place of caTTle, hay, and whiTewashed fences. New Miami had differenT faces and differenT sounds. The sound of a bull- dozer dug The foundation for a library wiTh The help of The money donaTed by Andrew Carnegie. VViTh ThaT library and an enrichmenf of knowledge came The erecfion of Brice Hall, adding a scienfific emphasis To The curriculum. These sTurdy TwenTieTh cenTury buildings replaced The provincial clay- baked sTrucTures of Old Miami. I7

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